The Deuce is on The Loose!

It’s well known that Deuces Wild and some of it’s more exotic variations yield a very high return for accurate play. Regular Deuces Wild, for instance offers a payback of over 100.76%. The variation found at Sam’s Town in Las Vegas called both Deuces Pay 200 and Bonus Deuces improves to about 100.95%.

Perhaps the most intriguing variety however is known as Loose Deuces. Loose Deuces is a visual standout with a garish orange-red display hawking the 2500 coin payoff for four deuces (with 5 coins played.) There are several varieties of this game, all denoted by the five of a kind/straight flush payoff.

The most commonly found varieties are the relative low paying 12/8 (even this version pay 99.8%) the 12/10 (100.2%) version and the 15/8 (100.15%) game. The 15/10 version is harder to find, but at 100.97% is worth searching out. However the highest paying version of this game, the 17/10 version which returns an incredible -101.6%(!) now seems to be reappearing in Las Vegas. It has been found at least two casinos in Glitter Gulch and more may follow.

17/10 LOOSE DEUCES

HAND

FREQUENCY

OCCURS EVERY n HAND; WHERE n =

PAYS (Bet = 5)

CONTRIBUTION TO TOTAL RETURN

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ROYAL FLUSH

0.00%

45310

4000

1.77%

FOUR DEUCES

0.02%

4702.1

2500

10.63%

ROYAL W/DEUCE

0.17%

589.07

125

4.24%

FIVE OF A KIND

0.32%

315.26

85

5.39%

STRAIGHT FLUSH

0.43%

230.21

50

4.34%

FOUR OF A KIND

6.51%

15.357

20

26.05%

FULL HOUSE

2.12%

47.27

15

6.35%

FLUSH

1.64%

60.863

10

3.29%

STRAIGHT

5.54%

18.058

10

11.08%

THREE OF A KIND

28.47%

3.5124

5

28.47%

GARBAGE

54.78%

1.8256

0

0.00%

101.6

There is a catch, however. This game is not only the highest paying flat-top around but also the most volatile. As the table shows, fully 12.4% of the payoff for this game is in the four deuces jackpot and the royal flush. So in between those two jackpots you are playing at a payback of 87.6%!

Worse than this, if you remove the often hard to get wild royal and five of a kind you are playing at 78%! This will obviously lead to some very mean losing streaks. You will generally need a wad of ‘Ben Franklins’ to play this game (which is only available in the quarter denomination.)